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Words. Borne on the ever swelling current of hatred, like flowers opening in the current, petals peeling back, then falling apart.

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Anne Rice
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 4
Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New Orleans
Louisiana
Anne O'Brien
A. N. Roquelaure
Anne Rampling
Howard Allen O'Brien
Howard Allen Frances O'Brien
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People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.
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What is written beneath this heavy handsome book cover will count, so sayeth this cover.
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We have such a terrible, terrible misconception of science. We think it involves the definite, the precise, the known it is a horrid series of gates to an unknown as vast of the universe which means endless.
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It is not man who is the enemy of the human species. It is the irrational it is the spiritual when it is divorced from the material from the lesson in one beating heart or one bleeding vein.
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He had never expected death to be this quiet, this secretive, this easy.
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I can't get very far away from Christianity, I can't get very far away from the angels and the saints. I work them in always, in some way.
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As for oblivion, well, we can wait a little while for that.
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I assume as a child Jesus had to learn how to do carpentry, learn Torah, learn all the things a human child had to learn. If He was human in all ways except that He did not sin, this must have been the case.
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